Category Archives: Aerial/UAS
Lisa Chen
Surveying Solution Manager, Pix4D Switzerland Lisa Chen brings a unique set of skills, experience, and education to the booming fields of UAS-based and close-range terrestrial photogrammetry. One of the key markets for precise photogrammetry is surveying. And how fortuitous to have a surveying and geomatics engineer involved who also has experience in systems and software...
No Roads, No Problem
A unique drone (the WingtraOne) helps a team meet the environmental challenges of planning a wind farm in the Alps. At a lofty altitude of 2500m above sea level, 20 wind turbines 100m tall need to be built. These wind turbines will produce 60 GWh per year to power 15,000 households. The engineering challenge is...
Why Your First Drone Should Be a Hobby Drone
A low-cost way to get hands-on UAS experience is to purchase a hobby drone and practice with it before making a bigger investment in a commercial-grade unit. I’ve talked to UAS professionals who agree . Why? The low cost makes it easy to afford and less painful should you crack it up. And, trust me...
HxIP as CaaS
How a prominent manufacturer of mapping airborne sensors and solutions has partnered with customers to expand its global online content service. At HxGN LIVE 2015, the annual exhibition and conference for Hexagon (parent company of Leica Geosystems), CEO and president Ola Rollén spoke about a new area of focus for the company: content services, or...
Top of the Crop: Pangaea 2017
As December closes its door, we look back at the year think about its highlights. As your Pangaea editor I examined the 2017 issues ranked by readership. Here’s the top three, why I think they were so popular, and the takeaways from each. Pangaea #190: Don’t Buy a Drone This headline was a bit of...
Flying Stockpiles
A team in Colorado is accurately estimating coal stockpile volumetrics with drones. Arch Coal is the second-largest domestic producer of metallurgical and thermal coal in America, with 96 million tons of coal sold in 2016. In total, Arch represents more than 13% of America’s coal supply from their complexes in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, West Virginia, Wyoming,...
